Download or read book Haitian Detention and Interdiction written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islands of Sovereignty written by Jeffrey S. Kahn and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islands of Sovereignty, anthropologist and legal scholar Jeffrey S. Kahn offers a new interpretation of the transformation of US borders during the late twentieth century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal and political form. Kahn takes us on a voyage into the immigration tribunals of South Florida, the Coast Guard vessels patrolling the northern Caribbean, and the camps of Guantánamo Bay—once the world’s largest US-operated migrant detention facility—to explore how litigation concerning the fate of Haitian asylum seekers gave birth to a novel paradigm of offshore oceanic migration policing. Combining ethnography—in Haiti, at Guantánamo, and alongside US migration patrols in the Caribbean—with in-depth archival research, Kahn expounds a nuanced theory of liberal empire’s dynamic tensions and its racialized geographies of securitization. An innovative historical anthropology of the modern legal imagination, Islands of Sovereignty forces us to reconsider the significance of the rise of the current US immigration border and its relation to broader shifts in the legal infrastructure of contemporary nation-states across the globe.
Download or read book Detain and Punish written by Carl Lindskoog and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section Isis Duarte Book Prize Immigrants make up the largest proportion of federal prisoners in the United States, incarcerated in a vast network of more than two hundred detention facilities. This book investigates when detention became a centerpiece of U.S. immigration policy, revealing why the practice was reinstituted in 1981 after being halted for several decades and how the system expanded to become the world’s largest immigration detention regime. From the Krome Detention Center in Miami to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to jails and prisons across the country, Haitians have been at the center of the story of immigration detention. When an influx of Haitian migrants and asylum seekers came to the U.S. in the 1970s, the government responded with exclusionary policies and detention, setting a precedent for future waves of immigrants. Carl Lindskoog details the discrimination Haitian refugees faced and how their resistance to this treatment—in the form of legal action and activism—prompted the government to reinforce its detention program and create an even larger system of facilities. Drawing on extensive archival research, including government documents, advocacy group archives, and periodicals, Lindskoog provides the first in-depth history of Haitians and immigration detention in the United States. Lindskoog asserts that systems designed for Haitian refugees laid the groundwork for the way immigrants to America are treated today. Detain and Punish provides essential historical context for the challenges faced by today’s immigrant groups, which are some of the most critical issues of our time.
Download or read book Haitian Detention and Interdiction written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discourse Domination and Contradiction written by Jennie Marcelle Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Come Here Thinking It s the Land of Freedom written by C. Little and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article begins by stating that Haitian refugees who seek safe haven in the United States find instead that they are singled out for special discrimination by the government. The author, staff attorney at the Haitian Refugee Center, Inc., states that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) 'routinely dismisses Haitians as solely 'economic migrants', unworthy of political refugee status'. Ms Little then goes on to give a summary analysis of some of the obstacles and conditions refugees face, whether interdicted at sea or interned in detention camps inside the United States. As for interdiction, she examines the actions of the United States Government in the last eight years following the Haitian Migrant Interdiction Operation Treaty (HMIO). She overviews the history of the treaty before describing its implementation through the interview process and the general problem of the protection of the legal rights of the interdicted Haitians. In the section of the article on the detention of Haitian refugees, the author examines the 'restrictive parole policy' of the INS. In addition, Ms Little describes conditions at the Krome North Processing Center in Miami, Florida, as reported by private attorneys and Haitian detainees. A description is also given of the conditions under which Haitian detainees were transferred from Florida to Louisiana and Texas. The remainder of the article analyses the obstacles to be overcome for obtaining legal representation for Haitian detainees. In the conclusion, the author says that 'The current INS policy of interdiction and detention of the Haitians is not only inhuman and unjust, it is also ineffective in its failure to address the reality of political repression in Haiti'.
Download or read book United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guant namo Bay written by Azadeh Dastyari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough legal analysis of the United States Migrant Interdiction Program, examining the United States' compliance with its obligations under municipal and international law as it interdicts individuals at sea, conducts status determinations, and returns those interdicted to their home countries. This book also examines the rights of the small number of refugees and individuals at risk of torture detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, awaiting resettlement in third countries. Policy-makers, students and scholars will benefit from this book's clarification of the legal obligations of nations engaged in extraterritorial status determination and detention, as well as its blueprint for compliance with international human rights and refugee law. As the first book of its kind devoted to the United States' interdiction program, this work represents an important contribution to scholarship in refugee law and policy, US constitutional law, international maritime law, and international human rights law.
Download or read book Black Interdictions written by Philip Kretsedemas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Interdictions, Philip Kretsedemas exposes the antiblack racism latent in the U.S. government’s Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and 1990s which set the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in the new millennium and lead to the migration and refugee policies of the Trump era and beyond. This type of radical exclusion is singular to the black experience and the black/nonblack binary must be factored into an analysis of the US migration regime. It is not possible to work together for equity and justice if we are not prepared to grapple with this divisive history and the instinct to avoid dealing with the singularity of the black experience. This book will be of interest to scholars of migration and refugee studies, black studies, legal studies, public policy and international relations, and many others.
Download or read book Refugee Refoulement written by Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental, social, and political conditions in Haiti have long prompted congressional interest in U.S. policy on Haitian migrants, particularly those attempting to reach the United States surreptitiously by boat. While some observers assert that such arrivals by Haitians are a breach in border security, others maintain that these Haitians are asylum seekers following a 30-year practice of Haitians coming by boat without legal immigration documents. Migrant interdiction and mandatory detention are key components of U.S. policy toward Haitian migrants, but human rights advocates express concern that Haitians are not afforded the same treatment as other asylum seekers arriving in the United States. This report does not track legislation but will be updated if policies are revised.
Download or read book U S Immigration Policy on Haitian Migrants written by Ruth Ellen Wasem and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastation caused by the 1/12/10 earthquake in Haiti has led DHS to grant Temp. Protected Status to Haitians in the U.S. Contents of this report: (1) Immigration Trends: Migration by Sea; Haitians Currently Living in the U.S.; (2) Policy Evolution; Post-Mariel Policy; Interdiction Agree.; Crisis After the Coup; Pre-Screening and Repatriation; Safe Haven and Refugee Processing; Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act; Removal; Procedural Practices and Controversies; (3) Temporary Protected Status; (4) Fed. Assist. to Haitian Migrants; Cuban-Haitian Entrants; Refugee Resettle. Assist.; (5) Issues in Congress: Haitian Families with Approved Petitions; Adoption of Haitian Orphans; Possible Mass Migration. Illus. A print on demand pub.
Download or read book Refuge Lost written by Daniel Ghezelbash and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more restrictive asylum policies are adopted around the world, Ghezelbash explores the implications for the international refugee protection regime.
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental, social, and political conditions in Haiti have long prompted congressional interest in U.S. policy on Haitian migrants, particularly those attempting to reach the United States by boat. While some observers assert that such arrivals by Haitians are a breach in border security, others maintain that these Haitians are asylum seekers following a decades old practice of Haitians coming by boat without legal immigration documents. Migrant interdiction and mandatory detention are key components of U.S. policy toward Haitian migrants, but human rights advocates express concern that Haitians are not afforded the same treatment as other asylum seekers. The devastation caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti has led Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians in the United States at the time of the earthquake. The scale of current humanitarian crisis--estimated thousands of Haitians dead and reported total collapse of the infrastructure in the capital city of Port au Prince--resulted in this TPS announcement on January 15, 2010. Secretary Napolitano also announced that Haitian children who were legally confirmed as orphans eligible for intercountry adoption by the government of Haiti and who were in the process of being ...
Download or read book Haitian Detention and Interdiction written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice and Law Enforcement written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed certain policies and practices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) related to the detention of aliens seeking asylum in the United States, INS detention policy, the selection of detention sites, the physical and health conditions of detention facilities, and the total Government cost for the detention of Haitian immigrants. In recent years, INS has taken into custody an increasing number of aliens attempting to enter the United States illegally. Before May 1981, INS released or paroled excludable aliens who were not considered a security risk. However, after that date, INS began to routinely detain excludable aliens for long periods. The rights of excludable aliens have been greatly enhanced in recent years by litigation. However, this litigation has resulted in the temporary suspension of exclusion hearings, thus delaying the hearing process. After a court declared that the new detention policy was null and void, INS has remedied a procedural issue concerning public notice but has remained committed to a strict detention policy. However, INS was not prepared to provide care for so many individuals for so long. Detainees at times live under severely crowded conditions without basic amenities and services. Two detention facilities are presently being used for Haitian aliens and construction of one more facility is being planned. Long-term detention of Haitians costs the Government about $49 a day per detainee, compared with costs for short-term detention which ranges from $12 to $18 per day in other INS facilities. GAO believes that INS should work to achieve better alternatives than the extremes that detention and parole now offer.
Download or read book The Usa and the Caribbean Interdiction Program written by Stephen H. Legomsky and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal focus of this paper is on interdiction at sea, in the Caribbean, by the United States. It is directed against one particular group of boat people - Haitians. There will, however, be some brief references to related United States programs and to US interdiction of non-Haitians.Haitian asylum seekers began arriving in the United States by boat as early as 1963. The numbers started becoming significant in the 1970s and surged dramatically in 1980 and 1981. The Haitians were fleeing persecution, poverty, and in some cases both. In response to the influx, in 1981 President Reagan entered into an agreement with the Haitian government.This paper will discuss the asserted justifications for interdiction, the resulting policy and legal problems, and the consequences of combining interdiction with related non-entreacute;e policies, such as detention, expedited removal, and other practices. It will suggest that the combination of measures is more lethal than the sum of its parts, sometimes leaving refugees with no acceptable options. If interdiction must be used, it will be argued, adequate provision for full and fair refugee status determinations is critical.
Download or read book Refugees at Our Border written by Bill Frelick and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines recent developments in US asylum policy, as well as some problems of a continuing nature, such as the interdiction of Haitians on the high seas. The first part provides a background to recent policy changes designed to stem the influx of asylum seekers. A discussion follows on the operation of Immigration and Naturalization Service policy and its immediate impact on the refugee scene in South Texas and Miami. Described next are the conditions in certain immigration detention centres. There is a section entitled 'Interdiction and detention of Haitians' which explains that interdiction circumvents rights to due process since it is carried out on the high seas, rather than on territory subject to US jurisdiction. General reflections on US asylum policy are offered. This is followed by a set of conclusions and recommendations relating to safe haven, interdiction, access to counsel, deterrence and conditions of detention.
